Word: deaths
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...forge effective public policy speedily. As if to underscore the urgent tone of Watkins' draft report, the San Francisco department of public health and the federal Centers for Disease Control predicted last week, for the first time, that infection with the AIDS virus will almost certainly result in death unless effective treatments are found...
Talking Straight, written with the help of New York Times Reporter Sonny Kleinfield, spends only a few chapters updating Iacocca's personal history. He recollects the diabetes-related death of his first wife Mary in 1983, then briskly describes his failed, 19-month second marriage to Peggy Johnson, a former flight attendant. These days, Iacocca says, his traveling companion is often his mother Antoinette...
Every spring, residents of the tiny Danish island of Anholt, midway between Denmark and Sweden, eagerly await the arrival of the harbor seals that breed on the island's sandy beaches. This year, however, they have been witnesses to a mysterious season of death. So far, more than 150 dead and dying seals and their prematurely born pups have washed ashore; in the past few weeks, Lighthouse Keeper Einar Boisen and others have been picking up as many as 17 dead seals a day. Says Boisen: "We've started calling ourselves the death patrol...
...seal deaths were not bad enough, a sudden bloom of yellow algae is spreading a carpet of death in the region. Believed to be stimulated by fertilizers that wash into the North Sea, the algae are suffocating salmon and trout in fish farms, as well as other marine life along 1,000 miles of coastal Denmark, Sweden and Norway...
Conservationists square off with rampaging ATV owners in a noisy war over wilderness areas. -- Season of death for North Sea seals...